The JSLabs Blog has a look at one of the most popular PHP scripts in use today - phpBB - and their latest development release (v3.0 beta 4) and asks "is it worth the wait?"

Recently, a new development version has been released (for testing purposes only), which has many new improvements over the current version (2.X). Today, I decided to install it on one of my development servers to find out if it really is worth the wait.

He lists the requirements and goes through a series of screenshots and descriptions of the new features including caching and the improvements to the moderation system.